Rochester's Jerome Gauhier-LeDuc, left, Cody Hodgson, Marcus Foligno and T.J. Brennan celebrate Foligno's game-winning overtime goal during a regular season game played at the Blue Cross Arena on Wednesday, December 26, 2012.

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Cody Hodgson and Marcus Foligno, the Rochester Americans top two forwards, are officially former Amerks and won't play in Wednesday's home game against the Syracuse Crunch.

Buffalo Sabres general manager Darcy Regier said on Tuesday that Hodgson and Foligno were being pulled from the Amerks immediately, even though NHL teams very likely won't open training camp until Friday at the earliest and more likely it will be Saturday or Sunday.

It's quite obvious that the Sabres, like other NHL teams, don't want to have these players risk injury in the AHL since they must help Buffalo win when the ...